The Boxer R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 7, 1998
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis & Emily Watson | |
Performer: | Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Ian McElhinney, Joan Sheehy, Oliver Maguire, Peter Sheridan, Brian Milligan, Kate Perry, Tommy O'Neill, Nye Heron, Paul Ronan, Kenneth Cranham, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Don Foley, Martin Dunne, Lorraine Pilkington, Tim McDonnell & Britta Smith | |
Directed by | Jim Sheridan | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenwriting by | Jim Sheridan & Terry George | |
Composition by | Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer | |
Produced by | Jim Sheridan & Arthur Lappin | |
Director of Photography: | Chris Menges |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[THE BOXER] has an attractive star pairing and an uncommon sports dimension... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche.. And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting his candy.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: B --
The art-house dream-team pairing of Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson amounts to more of a soft jab than a knockout punch.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Day-Lewis has the ability to make the will to nonviolence look positively volcanic. And Watson, with her 200-watt incandescence, makes longing look radiant.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 4/5 --
An intelligent, provocative piece of cinema, with something quite bold to say in the Irish context.
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sbs.com.au
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Though we've seen this unquiet terrain before, this new film about boxing, star-crossed lovers and the Irish Republican Army temporarily gives us fresh eyes.
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Chicago Tribune
In each film he makes, Day-Lewis seems to adopt a new persona.
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Associated Press
Product Description:
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this searing portrait of 1990s Belfast ripped apart by 20 years of religious conflict and IRA violence. Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis), a repentant IRA operative seasoned by a 14-year prison term, returns to the neighborhood of his childhood to try to rebuild his life. A prizefighter in his youth, he teams up with his old trainer (Ken Stott) to reopen a nonsectarian boxing gym in a bombed-out community center. Meanwhile, Danny finds himself undeniably drawn to his old girlfriend Maggie (Emily Watson), who is now married to his former best friend, an imprisoned IRA member. Maggie's father, Joe Hamil (Brian Cox), the head of the local IRA chapter, is attempting to negotiate an IRA cease-fire, causing extreme tension between IRA factions with opposing views. Danny and Maggie's rekindled love, which defies the IRA rule promising death for anyone having an affair with an imprisoned operative's wife, thrusts Danny straight into the center of the erupting tensions. Irish director Jim Sheridan and British actor Daniel Day-Lewis (who worked together on IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and MY LEFT FOOT) once again team up with wondrous results, creating a vivid and captivating portrait of an Ireland intimately torn by ancient religious strife.
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